Taking a break from coronavirus news, if not coronavirus confinement, Erick and Rich discuss the new Secure Cloud bundle from Zix, why now is the time to ask your vendors about special finance programs, and how a 93-year-old woman sheltering in place in Pittsburgh scored 10 free cases of Coors Light.

E-cycling. Coaching. If you’re doing them the way Matt, Rich, and guest host Scott Beck, of Canadian MSP BeckTek, recommend there should be no sweating involved and no one in a track suit barking at you. Tune in to this week’s episode to get the lowdown not just on e-cycling used hardware and Tech Data’s free professional coaching program, but the latest financing offers from D&H and a new cloud/security suite from Zix and AppRiver.†

5G will require more data and workloads to be cloud-based, accelerating adoption of cloud services and broadly redefining operations for many businesses.

Called Secure Cloud, the new offering adds products from Zix’s email security and archiving portfolio to a previously introduced Microsoft 365 ordering and billing platform from AppRiver, the cloud distributor Zix acquired last year.

MSPs and others are giving computing devices a second life—and helping the community, their customers, and ultimately the planet in the process.

Equipped with a modernized UI, the new release is designed to provide easier access to more digestible information about uninterruptible power supplies and other power equipment.

Sabine Howest (pictured) now heads up Ingram’s ongoing efforts to help partners build Internet of Things practices. The new center of excellence will support that project by providing access to subject matter experts, labs, demo facilities, and more.

New management software from Veeam, new financing help from Acronis, new security training from ConnectWise, and a new high-water mark for hard-core enforcement of large gathering restrictions are just a few of the stories belatedly coming your way now.

The new system, which now comes pre-loaded on Dell commercial PCs and can be added to late-model devices for free as well, continually looks for BIOS changes that could be an indicator of malicious activity.

It’s a whole new world, folks, and it just might be a great one too if you’re willing to rethink everything.